Posted on 04/18/2007 8:14:16 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
It emerged today that at one stage students were so scared of his behaviour that only seven out of 70 turned up for class, forcing lecturers to give him one-to-one tuition.
One teacher even suggested today he was given A grades because he was so "intimidating and staff wanted to keep him happy".
Nikki Giovanni, who teaches poetry, said she threatened to resign if Cho was not taken out of her class. She said: "I think he liked the idea he was a scary guy. Some people like that. That is how they define themselves. Kids write about murder and suicide all the time. But there was something that made us all pay attention closely.
"Students absolutely would not come into class. They said, 'He is taking photographs of us. We don't know what he is doing. It is very strange'."
(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...
It's no different thatn Pelosi making social calls to terrorist states.
Yes it can.
Yes, after reading all this and some of the replies, I think I would’ve tried to have the little nut committed some time before he starting wasting people who had no idea who he was.
He wasn’t on a visa. He had a green card.
Thanks to your and several previous replies I got the right information.
Excellent, a voice of reason.
You think he put “I want to kill people” in his essay?
Hearing an interview with members of his HS class, he seems to have been odd, not dangerous, to them. He probably had the grades and the test scores.
And Tech is not the hardest place to get into, especially outside of engineering. They accept 71% of applicants overall.
"Virginia State police spokesman Steve Flaherty said that on investigating the original shooting in the dormitory, the evidence led police to Emily Hilscher's boyfriend, Karl Thornhill, who had dropped her off that morning and who was known to love guns.
It was while police were questioning Karl Thornhill that reports of the second mass shooting at Norris Hall reached them."
As I watched CNN last night, the interview with these 2 former roommates has me wondering. Did VT assign any other kids to be his roommate after 2005 when these 2 interviewers left?
Colleges don’t just kick people out, except for grades or crimes. And he did not commit a crime (maybe the stalking—was he charged?).
One professor went to the police but since he hadn’t done anything, neither could they.
This is because school administrators have lost the chutzpah to stand up to unruly students. The PC madness has gone too far.
Sorry, I should know better.
READ THE WHOLE THREAD. READ THE WHOLE THREAD. READ THE WHOLE THREAD.
Not quite 3 Hail Marys but will it do?
“Soften up. Lay off these parents. They didnt cause this, and its highly unlikely they could have prevented it.”
Let me quess, you probably have some warm fuzzy feelings about Bin Laden’s parents too.
IF they didnt pay tuition I bet they would have kicked them out pretty fast.
“Add perjury to Chos list of crimes. When you buy a gun you are required to certify that you have [n]ever been committed to a mental institution? on ATF Form 4473. Cho lied and the dealer sold him the gun(s). Another damn law that aint gonna fix whats broken here, except maybe one telling VT that it will respect the CCW laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia and allow concealed carry on campus.”
I think that rule only applies if he was involuntarily committed. In this case he voluntarily committed himself.
“It’s ture. The department head verified it and stated that she,(the department head) was giving private tutoring to the Cho because of the professor’s objections to him.gunman.”
I believe the professor you refer to is Lucinda Roy director of creative writing in Virginia Tech’s English Department, not Nikki Giovanni.
http://onthescene.msnbc.com/vatech/2007/04/professor_says_.html
“A Virginia court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was “mentally ill” and potentially dangerous. Then the state let him go.” Sounds like he committed perjury to me.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=3052278
RIGHT!
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